netdev - Re: [PATCH RFC] ipv6_fib limit spinlock hold times for /proc/net/ipv6

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Date:	Fri, 25 Apr 2014 23:31:40 +0200
From:	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
To:	Chris Mason <clm@...com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] ipv6_fib limit spinlock hold times for /proc/net/ipv6_route

On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 10:41:11AM -0400, Chris Mason wrote:
> I was going to discuss the cache exclusion on a separate thread, but the 
> short version is that I don't have any clue of how many people we'd 
> upset by unconditionally leaving out the cached entries.

In my opinion this would be ok.

We definitely must reduce number of entries in the fib and I don't think it is
wise to synthesize them thereafter, especially if we don't need to track state
at all, e.g. forwarding.

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